nutrition

Many Americans live in food deserts and/or have such frenetic schedules that they cannot find the time/energy/forethought to eat right. But you can count on at least one thing nowadays – packages delivered to your front door. Everybody has a doorstep, whether they live in an apartment, townhouse, condo or single-family home.

In 2013, Maastrich University researchers announced that they had created a hamburger made completely out of beef grown in a lab. Mark Post, one of those Dutch professors, recently estimated on an interview with ABC news that the cost to make a lab grown burger has dropped to $11 a patty, or about $80 per kilogram. (Wagyu beef costs $33/ounce. Kobe beef costs $200 a pound.) The burger is made by incubating calf muscle stem cells in a nutrient of fetal calf serum.

Associate professor of Stanford and Tufts, Dr. John Ioanaddis, shared his controversial research with The Atlantic in 2010 showing mistakes in traditional healthcare teaching. In his original research he looked at the top 50 most cited, presumably most respected, articles in healthcare and found that 40% of them had their findings changed or overturned completely.

When projecting the error rate to the rest of medical literature, Dr. Ioanaddis estimated that 90% of what was known in healthcare was wrong.

To many, his 2010 announcement seemed bold, yet in the short five years since his article, look at how medicine has changed. More